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To: Nick Danger
How did I miss this story?

Sen. Kerry Finds Grandfather Was Jewish
A geneologist researched Sen. John Kerry's roots and found out information Kerry himself didn't know, including that his grandfather, who committed suicide in 1921, was born Jewish.

For years, the Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential hopeful sought the true story of his paternal grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry. He searched the Internet and asked cousins, but he was only able to learn fragments of the family's history.

Felix Gundacker, an Austrian genealogy specialist hired by The Boston Globe, located birth records located that show that Frederick A. Kerry was born Fritz Kohn, in 1873 in the town of Bennisch in what was then the Austrian empire, now part of the Czech Republic.

Gundacker said he is ``1,000 percent certain'' that Kerry was born to a Jewish family. The birth of a son to Benedikt Kohn, a ``master brewer,'' and his wife, Mathilde, was listed in church records on an addendum page listing Jewish families.

33 posted on 02/05/2003 10:30:46 PM PST by Defiant
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To: Defiant
A geneologist researched

I may have missed this one..........was this research or an investigation?

34 posted on 02/05/2003 10:35:34 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (I)
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To: Defiant
I'm missing the importance as to what Kerry's grandparents ethnicity has to do with anything. Could you help me out here?
38 posted on 02/05/2003 10:50:10 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (I)
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To: Defiant; Nick Danger
Come on out, the both of you..............
45 posted on 02/05/2003 11:15:56 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (I)
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